In 1977, Spong beme one of the first Amerin bishops to orda a woman to the clergy. In 1989, he was the first to orda an openly gay man. Spong died Sept. 12. Origally broadst 1996.
Contents:
- EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE
- OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT RECEIV MORE NODS
- EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
- CATHOLIC PRITS: IT'S 'EMPIRIL FACT' THAT MANY CLERGY ARE GAY
- * J. ROBERT WILLIAMS; FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT
- ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE
Wh an timated 2.3 ln members, the Epispal Church is open and welg of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny. * gay episcopal priests *
In 1976, both the Hoe of Deputi and Hoe of Bishops voted for a fully clive Epispal Church, statg, “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the church. Wley Hill might embody ntradictn: an openly gay man who is opposed to same-sex marriage and advot celibacy for gay Christians, servg a church that is fully clive of LGBTQ+ people. In 2010, his book “Washed and Wag: Reflectns on Christian Fahfulns and Homosexualy, ” articulated an unmon, nuanced approach to Christian sexualy that diverged om the much lour voic on the right and left.
In that and other wrgs, he has argued that the evangelil “ex-gay” movement – which views homosexualy as a disorr that n and should be cured wh nversn therapy – is harmful and immoral. The view that he helped popularize – acceptg gay orientatns as neher herently sful nor appropriate for sex and marriage – spawned a mostly onle movement among LGBTQ+ Christians that me to be lled Si B. It offers an alternative to “Si A” Christiany – the more liberal view poed by The Epispal Church and other nomatns that perform same-sex marriag and do not view gay sex as sful.
And so later when I was really wrtlg both personally as well as theologilly, I got to some of the nversatns about what is an appropriate Christian way to be gay, to live out one’s sexualy. A uple of wrers were really important for me – one was Henri Nouwen, and he wasn’t out durg his lifetime, but subsequently, bgraphers unearthed the fact that he had lived a, by all acunts, celibate gay life, and I eply ronated wh a lot of his wrg on spirualy and psychology and lonels particular.
OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT RECEIV MORE NODS
* gay episcopal priests *
But I would say even om progrsive folks who disagree wh me, I mean, certaly not all of them, but a lot of the younger on regnize the plexy of this and many of them are gay themselv. Hill: I mean, I don’t want anyone The Epispal Church to feel threatened by me as if I’m tryg to roll back the clock and make gay people go back the closet or whatever. “That was a really strikg moment to me as a Lato gay man, ” said Miguel Esbar, executive director of the Epispal Divy School at Unn Theologil Semary, durg a Hoe of Deputi discsn on May 18 tled “A Full and Equal Claim: LGBTQ+ Epispalians Discs the Path Forward.
EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
Bishop is First Openly Gay Woman to be Consecrated Bishop, Only 2nd Female Dce of Los Angel * gay episcopal priests *
“There were some church I applied to that I uldn’t get as a gay person, and there were others that I applied to that I uldn’t get as a Black person, ” Grav told ENS, scribg his earlier job search. The rolutn “nfs the Church’s ntued heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, and the ongog harmful impact of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian proclamatn, preachg, pastoral re, and theology” and exprs a renewed mment to ensurg that LGBTQ people experience a “full and equal claim” to church life.
CATHOLIC PRITS: IT'S 'EMPIRIL FACT' THAT MANY CLERGY ARE GAY
Some Catholic clergy say most prits are gay. * gay episcopal priests *
Church Milant has learned that a clanste pipele for homosexual semarians was tablished the 1990s and to the early 2000s where active gay men om Colombia, South Ameri were beg secretly funneled to U.
Multiple semarians have been ntact wh and want the entire story of the massive, massive crisis of homosexual predatn by the clergy — pecially the semari — pletely exposed.
* J. ROBERT WILLIAMS; FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT
John Lavers: "The vtigatn, when we began April/May of 2012, revealed that there was a wi work of semarians which were volved abnormal behavr and homosexual activy spreadg across a number of dc the eastern part of the Uned Stat.
Semarians who had actually been expelled om var Colombian semari for homosexual activy were quietly told that they should fd their way to the Amerin "discernment" hoe if they wanted a ticket to gay-iendly semari the Uned State. Approximately three or four years later, the archdce of Newark shut down the Columbian hoe when the homosexual activy volvg Amerin prits and the young Columbians was disvered, as this would e great embarrassment to the archdce if ever beme public.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
The archbishop of Hartford at the time was Henry Mansell, who figur promently the Pennsylvania grand jury report for his time as bishop of Buffalo, when he shipped at least one known homosexual predator prit to Pennsylvania.
What Church Milant has learned is that, prr to gog to Hartford 2003, when he was bishop of Buffalo startg 1995, Mansell set up an earlier versn of the gay recg work Colombia. Church Milant spoke exclively to multiple semarians who were at Buffalo's Christ the Kg Semary at the time, and two of them told that homosexualy at the semary unr Mansell and Gatto was rampant, and that some of the Colombians were actually parceled out to parish assignments wh active homosexual pastors, who lavished expensive gifts, cludg rs, on the young, gay Colombians exchange for sex. We spoke wh two of the men by phone — one of whom didn't want his name ed — and they both said they left semary bee they were disgted wh the -your-face homosexualy that domated.